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| sweetjimmyhugs |
3/26/04, 1:16 PM EDT |
That makes me want to go out and find an old laptop to try out Linux. I've always wanted to give it a shot, but had hardware issues (like not having any hardware to use).
I developed a taste for the UNIX command line at work a few years back and desparately wanted to be cool and use Linux like the rest of the cool kids. The command line is the new black.
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| Aaron Rosenzweig |
3/27/04, 9:34 AM EDT |
If people don't want to tinker, they need a Mac. This is far and away the most trouble free system currently on the market. With Microsoft Windows, there is always a moderate, to excessive, amount of fiddling which needs to be done.
I was speaking to the manager of my local Barnes & Noble the other day. His home Windows PC is so slow now as to be almost unusable. His daughter had been using Kazaa and installing all kinds of software. He gets pop-ups in his Web browser and taken to random home pages every time he opens IE. Though I offered the possibility of installing a free Unix on his system, I believe his solution will be to wipe the drive and put severe limits on how his daughter uses the family PC.
What he, and many people, really need is a trouble free way to:
1) send Email
2) browse the Web
3) type simple letters, spreadsheets, and reports
I got him thinking about the possibility of Unix being "his" little piece of the PC. That his system can have a boot manager on startup. His daughter could do whatever she wants but he could always reboot into his personal utopia.
I started a 2 part installment in my "LovinLife" column geared for Seniors using computers. It is called "Are computers created equal?" and can be found at: http://www.wwseniors.com/cgi-bin/artdsp.pl?sect=te ch&filename=20040313aa
March's column compares Macs and PCs. April's column will consider Linux and other free Unix variants.
Besides Lindows and Fedora (mentioned on HTML Samurai's site), Lycoris is another solution for people who would want to pay a bit of money to get software more easily installed on a Linux system.
Another possibility for the frazzled PC user, is to install Zeta — the successor of BeOS. It is commercial software but not overly expensive. BeOS came in 2nd to NeXTSTEP for the race to replace Mac OS 9. It is a nice, alternative, operating system.
Finally, I don't think free Unix is too much for most people to handle. It is different, and takes a bit of learning. It is certainly worth a good 3 month trial to see if you like it or not. If you are bewildered by the plethora of flavors of Linux, you may want to try FreeBSD. There is only one FreeBSD and it shares a common source code tree with Darwin (the underpinnings of OS X).
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| HTML Samurai |
3/27/04, 4:46 PM EDT |
I was told that I have been missed on 2GAMAW. I'm going to try to make sure I stop at least once a day, if for no reason other than to give sweeyjimmyhugs a hard time. ;) Thanks yo!
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| sweetjimmyhugs |
3/27/04, 6:58 PM EDT |
aww shucks! You're too nice.
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| stickman67 |
3/29/04, 12:02 AM EDT |
How many Microsoft software developers does it take to change a lightbulb?
No, seriously. I'd really like to know. I've got one busted on my back porch.
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